Negreira comment by Barcelona president Joan Laporta: Smear campaign
Club Barcelona president Joan Laporta denied the allegations in the case that they had paid a company to find out about the so-called “Negreira incident” from the referees, claiming that “a massive campaign was being carried out to smear the club”. .
Laporta broke his silence, which has lasted nearly two months since the complaints about the “Negreira incident”, with a press conference.
Speaking in front of 110 journalists from 70 media outlets at Camp Nou Stadium, Laporta said: “The Negreira incident is not a crime of corruption. They want to destroy one of the emblems of Catalonia, the Club Barcelona. Some circles of power do not support the club as a Catalan platform open to the world. This is a smear campaign.” he used his statements.
Laporta said that what happened with Negreira is not “by chance” and that the club has begun to come after the initiative of the European Super League that wants to establish itself as a rival to the UEFA Champions League, that Barcelona has recovered sports and UEFA, FIFA and LaLiga are against, he argued.
The president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta. Photo: Reuters.
“FOR REQUIRED DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION…”
President Laporta, the ethics of working with a person from the arbitration commission on the issue of Barcelona’s payment of 7.3 million euros in total between 2001-2018 to DASNIL 95 SL, owned by the former vice president of the CTA José María Enríquez Negreira , and yet he refrained from giving clear answers to questions about conflicts of interest in sports.
President of Club Barcelona, ”They have paid us for 18 years to obtain some important and necessary documents and information, they received 629 reports and 43 CDs during 4 different periods of club presidency, all of them are important and of high quality, they did not buy referees, there is no corruption in the sporting sense, there is no business corruption, he stressed that the recruit is not Enríquez Negreira, but his son.
Noting that they were found guilty before the judicial process concluded and that they were victims, Laporta said: “We will defend our club’s reputation to the end against these attacks aimed at destabilizing our club. If there has been an individual irregularity, Club Barcelona is a victim of it”. saying.
Photo: Reuters.
blame REAL MADRID
Laporta also blamed his arch-rivals, Real Madrid, and used the following statements:
“Everyone knows that Real Madrid is historically the one that has benefited the most from referee errors. The club of the regime (time of the Franco dictator). For 70 years they have been presidents of referees, former Real Madrid players, players or managers. There were times when they did it all at once. For 70 years they appointed arbitrators to deliver justice. It is unprecedented cynicism that, at the height of our club, Madrid appears and claims to have been harmed sportingly. I hope this case makes a fool of them.”
WHAT IS THE BARCELONA AND NEGREIRA EVENT?
In Spain, the Treasury, while investigating DASNIL 95 SL, owned by the former vice president of the Technical Board of Referees José María Enríquez Negreira, for alleged tax evasion, revealed that Barcelona paid this company a total of 7.3 million euros between 2001 -2018.
Although the current administration in Barcelona denied all the accusations, the prosecution opened an investigation against Club Barcelona, with the exception of Negreira, against former presidents Jose Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, and two former directors, on charges of “corruption in sport “. , irregularity in the management of the club and issuance of false commercial documents”.
The disciplinary institutions of the Spanish Football Federation, FIFA and UEFA also decided to carry out an investigation into the complaints.